[Marxism] Uri Avnery - Racists For Democracy

[Dennis Brasky <dmozart1756@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> 30 May, 2009
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> HOW LUCKY we are to have the extreme Right standing guard over our
> democracy.
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> This week, the Knesset voted by a large majority (47 to 34) for a law that
> threatens imprisonment for anyone who dares to deny that 
> Israel<http://www.creative-i.info/?tag=israel>is a Jewish and Democratic 
> State.
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> The private member’s bill, proposed by MK Zevulun Orlev of the “Jewish
> Home” party, which sailed through its preliminary hearing, promises one year
> in prison to anyone who publishes “a call that negates the existence of the
> State of Israel <http://www.creative-i.info/?tag=israel> as a Jewish and
> Democratic State”, if the contents of the call might cause “actions of hate,
> contempt or disloyalty against the state or the institutions of government
> or the courts”.
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> One can foresee the next steps. A million and a half Arab citizens cannot
> be expected to recognize Israel <http://www.creative-i.info/?tag=israel>as a 
> Jewish and Democratic State. They want it to be “a state of all its
> citizens” – Jews, Arabs and others. They also claim with reason that
> Israel <http://www.creative-i.info/?tag=israel> discriminates against
> them, and therefore is not really democratic. And, in addition, there are
> also Jews who do not want Israel <http://www.creative-i.info/?tag=israel>to 
> be defined as a Jewish State in which non-Jews have the status, at best,
> of tolerated outsiders.
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> The consequences are inevitable. The prisons will not be able to hold all
> those convicted of this crime. There will be a need for concentration camps
> all over the country to house all the deniers of Israeli democracy.
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> The police will be unable to deal with so many criminals. It will be
> necessary to set up a new unit. This may be called “Special Security”, or,
> in short, SS.
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> Hopefully, these measures will suffice to preserve our democracy. If not,
> more stringent steps will have to be taken, such as revoking the citizenship
> of the democracy-deniers and deporting them from the country, together with
> the Jewish leftists and all the other enemies of the Jewish democracy.
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> full ---      http://www.creative-i.info/?p=7251
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> "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- *Voltaire*
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